Today for us, we as peace Pilgrims consider the herald voice of Vernalia Equinox, New Year, her sweaty salty big V energy.
Sharing the peace pilgrim message is our demonstration of new year.
https://youtube.com/shorts/WebEuyl4jrA?si=od29vrBC0s6HDs_r
The one great fear of the occupation and its proxies is that the resistance may grow and the peace movement may break out on Turtle Island and empower regime change here and abroad. We know the most powerful method for peace transformation is sitting with plants, decoupling, and sacred land sacred sex and the osprey qigong taught by the banned teacher Wild Herb Ways.
Currently we are in the same type of cyclic 100 year drought that drove the Anasazi to cannibalism, war and despair around 1350AD first from the then fertile valleys to fortified mountain cliff redoubts. Many of us still remember the year 1150AD when the mountain near Wupatki erupted turning the days cold and black.
Blessed day, this is one of the solutrian sites of Vernalia Equinox where we as Peace Pilgrims, through sitting with plants, rocks clouds, wind and water encounter the primal forms, here known as javelina rock vision quest confirmation site. It was here the peace pilgrim message of Vernalia was given to world teacher wild herb ways.
Eschscholzia californica, California Poppy bloom. Those of us in the caravan were taught the genius teachings through several days with this Remedio, so useful to biospirit.
Poppy/Dicentra family (Papaveraceae) 1 March 2026, sun 11-30 Pisces, Moon Leo 24-14 near full, 4500 ft New Mexico,
Often the days of Phacelia
scorpion weed
are short.
I had water bottles frozen solid one night,
purple lupine opened,
snow on the peaks and two days later it was one hundred degrees. It was like spring was over and yet mesquite, ash, valley sycamore were yet to leaf out. The great forests of wildflower purple was different as it always is each time.
Eschscholzia californica, California Poppy bloom. Those of us in the caravan were taught the genius teachings through several days with this Remedio, so useful to biospirit.
Poppy/Dicentra family (Papaveraceae) 1 March 2026, sun 11-30 Pisces, Moon Leo 24-14 near full, 4500 ft New Mexico,
Often the days of Phacelia
scorpion weed
are short.
I had water bottles frozen solid one night,
purple lupine opened,
snow on the peaks and two days later it was one hundred degrees. It was like spring was over and yet mesquite, ash, valley sycamore were yet to leaf out. The great forests of wildflower purple was different as it always is each time.
Desert Evening Primrose
Oenothera primiveris
Evening-Primrose family (Onagraceae)
2700ft 900m first week March Catalina foothillsshade,loose granetic soil with foothills paloverde, opuntia saguaro.
La #gobernadora is #hediondilla called ts'ah is one of the true ways of health and peace.
Larrea tridentata family : Zygophyllaceae. Is a low desert plant of arroyo and bajada, a long lived woody perennial shrub the desert smelling like rain scent and bright yellow 5 sepals star flower. We make a lotion skin remedy herb infused oil that works well on sun, desert skin. Add the yerba to olive oil. La gobernadora has affinity for spring wood liver principle and functions as a medicinal bitter and many aspects of health. Herbalist mentor author JJ. S., teaches through La Gobernadora.
The Slat, teaches a delightful salt lacto ferment of the young fruit of flowers, making a southwest turtle island caper, bringing the flower world to table. Here growing and in fruit and flower 3rd week March on the caliche flats southern bioregion.
Oenothera primiveris
Evening-Primrose family (Onagraceae)
2700ft 900m first week March Catalina foothillsshade,loose granetic soil with foothills paloverde, opuntia saguaro.
La #gobernadora is #hediondilla called ts'ah is one of the true ways of health and peace.
Larrea tridentata family : Zygophyllaceae. Is a low desert plant of arroyo and bajada, a long lived woody perennial shrub the desert smelling like rain scent and bright yellow 5 sepals star flower. We make a lotion skin remedy herb infused oil that works well on sun, desert skin. Add the yerba to olive oil. La gobernadora has affinity for spring wood liver principle and functions as a medicinal bitter and many aspects of health. Herbalist mentor author JJ. S., teaches through La Gobernadora.
The Slat, teaches a delightful salt lacto ferment of the young fruit of flowers, making a southwest turtle island caper, bringing the flower world to table. Here growing and in fruit and flower 3rd week March on the caliche flats southern bioregion.
Nama demissum. Treated to the emergence of La Tortuga who embraced he Nama beds.
Purplemat,
Cirsium neomexicanum - New Mexico thistle.
Family: Asteraceae 2nd week March in flower 900m 2700ft Santa Catalina foothills. The spiny nature of this plant and how the large two inch pink flower head attaches directly to the main stem, with spines downward pointing are a couple identifiers along with the hairy, spiny pointed, silver white prominent center vein basal leaves, another. New Mexico thistle blooms at this elevation early spring while at higher elevations it will bloom more like a later spring mid summer bloom. Everything is kinda super advanced down here seasonally.
Cirsium neomexicanum is a liver restorative and an important herbal ally for metabolic syndrome. The whole plant is used, roots, basal fleshy spiny leaves and flowering tops for the thistle seeds. This is probably one of the top 3 medicinal plants in what I call our Turtle Island southwest, or American southwest. Or as the genius world teacher, Wild Herb Ways is fond of saying, "The bottom line is regardless of your favorite poison, liver is king." According to him, 'Spring time is emergence of wood principle. Plants and the green veriditas of Saint Hildegarde is rising up, pushing through below ground into above ground.
Our own liver within biospirit requires the same rejuvenation to keep up, no pain no gain. If you're not being born, then what are you doing? Get with it! Either get with life, or get out. When the liver becomes stagnant , thinking and emotions become negated and frustrated. Spring is also the time of wind, atmospheric movement. When liver stagnancy meets 'wind' disturbance this becomes a stagnation of wind, or as lung sensitivity, what people may call seasonal allergies, head stuffiness, sinus headache. Look at it this way, there is a competition, are you in shape to compete? Or are you on the sideline? Or you participant ready for the game, or watching? Maybe not even watching in the stands, but watching on TV? Thistle is an herbal medicine to pull out of this liver stagnation funk. Just like there is seasonal affective SAD disorder in winter, there is seasonal affective disorder in the transition from winter to spring. Cirsium neomexicanum is the remedio
Ephedra trifurca
ephedra shrubs Family (Ephedraceae), a low desert shrub perennial with woody stems with grey fissured bark towards the base. The stems are greenish grey, at the nodes are miniaturized pine cone like structures with pollen grains
present here 3rd week March. Ephedra here is a 1-1.5m 3-4ft tall shrub growing on gravel soil with cholla, palo verde and ocotillo. You can do a organoliptic taste test, and determine by taste if this might be a good one to gather for tea or tincture,
different plants have a strong alkaloid bitterness and might be suitable for a mildly stimulant tea, that can be part of a hayfever remedio.
The tea itself is pleasant tasting while the tincture can be quite bitter though useful as a type of decongestant with canyon burrbrush in bioregional formula.
Ambrosia ambrosioides Canyon burrsage,
Asteraceae. Big leaf burrsage is in the 2nd week March gurgling canyon bottoms of Santa Catalina the greenest of the green. This ambrosia species has the largest leaves with deep serrate toothed wedge shaped triangle leaves, and can stand 1-2m tall, 4-5 feet tall. Triangle leaf burrsage whole plant, and root teas and tincture, is one our most important remedio for itchy weepy eyes, runny nosezone hay fever, seasonal allergy syndrome SAS.
As we approach our nowruz Sun with the victory of light at vernal equinox all the pollens of cedar, juniper, ash, elm are pollening. Pollen time is a wildly sexual time, in Christian terms it's fishing season. In TCM traditional Chinese medicine, its spring, wood and wind time. In terms of our rambling random herbalism of the genius world teacher Wild Herb Ways, sacred land sacred sex, Nō-Rūz means new day, means rejuvenation of liver to match as above so below, big body world, small little body world.
The element is wod, the colour is deep green triangle leaf big burr green, the climate is windy blowing, the emotion is anger energy to get things done, and the organs are live gallbladder. All this wind stirring up the plant, wood sex pollen enters our nose and enters our wind blow organ lungs making what is called by genius teacher, 'liver attacking lung'. So we make up this formula using New Mexico thistle, big leaf burrsage,
plantain and elder flower. May you be blessed by me.
Oenotheraprimiveris -
desert evening primrose. Family: Onagraceae Is a ground hugging primrose , with deeply lobed elongated basal leaves,
10cm long, with white hairs. The flower is yellow with 4 fused heart shaped petals, flowers open at dusk, stay open all night
and close in the morning as the sun rises higher. Growing 3rd week March 2700ft, 900m, on graveled, well drained soil.
Purplemat,
Billa yaya de la Tortuga
Purple Ma: Flor Morada. Borage Family. Where the Santa Catalina Tortoise emerges from her underground house on la día de la purifacion she leaves her underground house she shares with burrowing Owl's, gophers and quail with whom she has spent the winter teaching genius students the peace pilgrim science of Wild Herb Ways. La Tortuga sits on a royal purple throne of Nama, on a Billa yaya, or sleepy pillow of the Tortoise.
When lovers meet in the desert they spend the first new moon, following the blood moon eclipse praying for peace through La Tortuga who as the Virgin Mary has attained her Candelaria or light blessing. As followers of the genius teachers of Wild Herb Ways we sit with Nama, La Tortuga near her underground palace, and counter the soulless occupation of those allaigned with war who launched their agenda at the blood moon. We stand with La Tortuga, and like he invoke the Virgin mother of God who gives birth to the world of flowers, through Nama, La Tortuga, La Santa Fe of la Santa Cruz, being the wood wind principle activating the liver, as above so below,
on earth as it is of heaven, we teach the green to do no harm and overcome through love this peaceful plan of Wild Herb Ways.
La TortugaReina Eileen con Lavanda del desierto,
Queen Eileen of the Turtles with Desert Lavender, original music the genius world teacher quartet featuring the Wild Herb Ways La Tortuga Reina Eileen, https://youtube.com/shorts/5TuywKVFKvI?si=fG0j2Lcj0XT6Vww2
Purple Ma: Flor Morada. Borage Family. Where the Santa Catalina Tortoise emerges from her underground house on la día de la purifacion she leaves her underground house she shares with burrowing Owl's, gophers and quail with whom she has spent the winter teaching genius students the peace pilgrim science of Wild Herb Ways. La Tortuga sits on a royal purple throne of Nama, on a Billa yaya, or sleepy pillow of the Tortoise.
When lovers meet in the desert they spend the first new moon, following the blood moon eclipse praying for peace through La Tortuga who as the Virgin Mary has attained her Candelaria or light blessing. As followers of the genius teachers of Wild Herb Ways we sit with Nama, La Tortuga near her underground palace, and counter the soulless occupation of those allaigned with war who launched their agenda at the blood moon. We stand with La Tortuga, and like he invoke the Virgin mother of God who gives birth to the world of flowers, through Nama, La Tortuga, La Santa Fe of la Santa Cruz, being the wood wind principle activating the liver, as above so below,
on earth as it is of heaven, we teach the green to do no harm and overcome through love this peaceful plan of Wild Herb Ways.
La TortugaReina Eileen con Lavanda del desierto,
Queen Eileen of the Turtles with Desert Lavender, original music the genius world teacher quartet featuring the Wild Herb Ways La Tortuga Reina Eileen, https://youtube.com/shorts/5TuywKVFKvI?si=fG0j2Lcj0XT6Vww2
The Tortoise Queen Eileen, is a Sonoran wedding song, for the genius teachings of Queen Eileen, La Tortuga Reina Eileen, Recorded 17 March 2026, at Santa Catalina and Santa Clara, by the genius world teachers, live on Turtle Island. all rights reserved, copyright 2026. All acoustic guitars, bass, percussion by Wild Herb Ways Paul Manski
https://youtu.be/IzQ3FxNgB2s?si=LGiesBkYsyx2V4NA
Purple Owl's Clover
Castilleja exserta
Broomrape/Paintbrush family (Orobanchaceae) formerly Orthocarpus purpurascens) 2700ft 900m Catalina foothills, south Arizona.
First week March, full moon eclipse, Moon 7-10 Virgo retrograde Mercury. Early winter rains have given way to early, dry, hot spring daytime highs low 90's, it's good to be here on the wildherbways flower road.
In our Cylindropuntia cholla forest,
we receive through the sitting with plants techno-process, by way of five senses, the archetypal form of God's creation direct transmission. Leaves become spines, spines become wounds, the individual segments without notice will leap, performing cartwheels and summer-saults. Many Cylindropuntia forest trees jump, up to 2-3 meters and you'll find these zipper snapper cholla lodged in your skin.
When approaching entrance to the great cylindropuntia forests always begin with honouring... the genius world teacher, of Wild Herb Ways to connect with the true form"
Janusia gracilis
Common Name: Slender Janusia
Spanish: Fermina)
Family: Malpighiaceae, Barbados cherry family. Perennial woody shrub, to 1m tall, with 5 petal yellow flowers, fruit is a samara often in pairs, leaves sessile opposite, visible midline greenish gray. Sonoran foothills, 1st week March, 900m 2700ft elevation.
Jatropha cardiophylla,
Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) Heart-leaf Limberbush, sangre-de-Cristo, w:as, sangrengado, blood root. Found south Arizona at 900m, 2700ft. The stem are supple, wiry, rubbery, flexible, bendable. Used to make coiled baskets. Bark is reddish brown with distinctive lenticels. First week March.
Limberbush is leafless till summer monsoon rains, when it puts out a distinctive heart shaped, creased glossy leaf, often at saguaro fruit time. A strong astringent, with a whitish creme clear translucent latex in upper parts, and red latex in the lowest stem and roots. Used to staunch bleeding, applied to insect bites, poison ivy skin type irritation,
when a drying 'calamine'-lotion type drying agent similar to how eastern jewel weed is used. Quite an interesting plant to hang out with and check out.
Platystemon californicus, Papaveraceae – Poppy family, Cream Cups.
Here in southern Arizona creamcups bloom first week March 2700ft, 900m, in moist, sandy ground at the edges of desert washes.
The leaves are tiny green, hugging the ground, hairy, opposite, linear to narrowly lanceolate in shape, and clustered at the base of the plant. The flowers are solitary creamy with 6 white petals, with a delicate poppy bowl, cupped shape.
The fruit resembles tiny miniature ears of corn. The stems and leaves are sparsely covered in unusual, long, white hairs. Further north, it grows taller and can be more of a meadow annual, while in the south sonoran desert it is always a stream sandy bank riparian, blooming while the moisture lasts.
Dodonaea viscosa,
hopbush, first week March, 900m, 2700ft,
sandy alluvial fan, riparian, southern Arizona. https://pgmanski.blogspot.com/.../Dodonaea%20viscosa...
Encelia farinosa, Family: Asteraceae
brittlebush,inciensio, an aster family woody shrub perennial, drought heavy hard frost-Deciduous. Around 1m, 3 ft, tall, rounded shape. Grey green leaves covered with fine hairs, early leaves are less hairy more green.
The leaves drop off during periods of drought and after heavy frosts.
A low desert Sonoran shrub that can bloom yellow golder aster flowers any time after december to March April. Here 1st week March 900m 2700ft, full sun rocky soil, with foothill thorn scrub, paloverde, cholla, burrobush, ambrosia dumosa.
At the junction of woody stems is found a yellow resin sap that can be gathered for a fragrant incense when burned, hence incienso.
Baccharis salicifolia,
mulefat, Seepwillow, Asteraceae nation, Batamote, Jara, Jarilla, Hierba del Pasmo, Jarillla. In the lower deserts, an alluvial fan, often riparian shrub.
This Baccharis has elongated gently toothed on edge leaves, the tooth is in a looped graceful undulating arch pattern.
Underside of leaf has prominent raised center vein, short stemmed mainly sessile grasping stem, dark green, glossy shiny, sticky to touch resinous. Used medicinally external for skin wound healing, wash for scratches. Internal as tea for gastric stomach upset.
Condea emoryi hyptis emoryi, Labiacea mint family, desert lavender.
Hyptis is a lower desert bush woody perennial mint, a frost-deciduous indicator going for micro niche environment, sun facing south slopes, boulders where solar heat is trapped. It is at it's frost sensitive limit here in the sonoran and mohave. Blooming first second week March, bees will buzz and hum, it's location out to all. Delight fragrances in the royal purplish blue mint flowers.
Hyptis is used to address the moon rock sickness that began in the late 60's where moon rocks spread the loathing sickness of selfish individualism spread through moon rocks and colour television. Hyptis was spoken of in visions by genius world teacher, peace pilgrim, Wild Herb Ways to bring back biospirit sexual energy healing, by broom sweeping, limpia, beginning with the head and shoulders, outer portion arm to fingers.
Arm pits inner aspect to fingers. Torso, buttocks, abdomen, outer legs to ankle toe, innner groin, inner leg sweeping to ankle feet into the ground.
World of Flowers, P
primal Forms the Genius Teacher teaching, Wild Herb Ways
https://youtu.be/ZsOVYe3mDjo?si=JvGNU5m3xMsPenbv
Sotol,
cucharilla, palmilla de serrucho, sawo, saño: Dasylirion wheeleri, Family: Asparagaceae, also described as an 'agave' century stylist plant.
Perennial rounded spherical plant, of rocky dry full sun southwest sonoran chihuahua deserets. Leaves are the graceful grey green bluish sea green, radiate from apex, fully serrated with spines on the margins. The marginal spines point towards the distal end of leaf, while agave parry and palmeri point toward apex. Sotol here first week March will send a towering flower stalk, 3-6m, 8-18ft tall, July August after monsoon rains.
There are male and female sotol with male flowers whitish and female feminine pink purple. Sotol like agave has an extensive root that was roasted in dug out roastiing pits and like agave, once roasted, fermented into the chihuahua drink sotol, long banned and
deplatformed, unavailable for green frog skin sale, now sold openly in commerce as 'sotol'.
Coursetia glandulosa,
Also Called:
Rosary Baby-Bonnets, Baby Bonnets, Coursetia (ES: Sámota, Samo Prieto, Chino, Cousamo, Cousano, (Tepe) Chipile), pea family, Fabaceae. First week March 2700ft 900m, in flower. Rocky dry full sun steep slopes, Catalina foothills, southern Arizona. A large sprawling perennial deciduous woody shrub, 6-12 feet high. Leaves are tiny, pinnately compound, and few and far between.
Many sonoran Fabaceae are armed, thorny, barbed, so lack of thorns is a key in Coursetia glandulosa. Branches are thin, flexible and rather flimsy.
The flowers are unique, white tinged pink with a yellow center, burgundy sepals. The stems exude a resinous gummy substance
that was added to pottery, adobe, and used to seal syrupy sweet saguaro nectar, and pottery jars storage containers.
Trixis californica -
American threefold, trixis, American trixis, California trixis
Family: Asteraceae. First week March, 900m 2700ft southern Arizona. Evergreen perennial shrub, round spherical form,
full sun rocky steep slopes. Dark green shiny lanceolate toothed leaves.
Yellow distinctive flower heads are surrounded with greenleaf like bracts.
Celtis ehrenbergiana, C. pallida,
Thorny Hackberry , Granjeno.
Found southern Arizona, requires shade and water to bear fruit.
These were growing in a well watered riparian creek side with afternoon shade,
2700ft 900m in ideal conditions otherwise you won't get fruit,
which is a fleshy drupe, one seeded, with a pleasant sweetness like persimmon.
saguaro
saguaroing first week March
2700ft 900m yes thankyou
Moonrock colour television
sickness remedio
Thysanocarpus curvipes
- sand fringepod, Brassicaceae, mustard family. 2nd week March moist rocky slope in southern adjacent 900m 2700ft, full sun well drained soul.
This genus and Athysanus are the only mustard family plants,
brassicids with single-seeded fruit capsule, with this presentation.
Sand Fringepod is a delicate plant, basal leaves in a rosette and cauline leaves are sessile clapping, wrapped around stem.
Nuttallanthus texanus,
=Linaria canadensis, Texas toadflax, Plantaginaceae, formerly Scrophulariaceae, the basal leaves yellow and disappear,
the toadflax then forms a raceme with lavender, purple flowers, to white creme, the flowers have a two lobed upper lip, three lobed lower lip,
with a long downward spur on the rear.
Growing in dry, sandy soil, mainly full sun, blooming extensive in the 2700ft 900m Catalinas, south Arizona.
Penstemon parryi,
Parry's beard-tongue, Parrys Penstemon. Scrophulariaceae – Figwort family.
Southern Arizona perennial blooming early March, southwest sonoran desert and now often seen throughout the Arizona, New Mexico and Utah seeded along highways and urban areas as landscape plantings.
Pink-red, magenta tubular flowers on pedicle, with bilateral symmetry two fused upper lobes and three fused lower, often with fine hairy lobes, projected lobes. The leaves are grey-green, opposite, sessile grasping, wrapped around the central stem, lanceolate with strong bilateral symmetry, larger toward base of stem.
Humming birds and moths are attracted to the deep magenta pink trumpet like flowers.
fiddler fiddlesticks26 appalachian fiddle # spring 2026
Calochortus kennedyi,
orange butterfly lily, deser Mariposa lily. Liliaceae family. Rocky hillside 2nd week March, 3200ft 1000m, open full sun. Each flower composed of 3 brilliant orange sepals, proment brown purple blotch near base of cup shape, leaves , blade like thin, opposite, usually withering with flowering phase.
The bell shaped flowers can be up to 3-5 in a loose cluster. 
The fruit will be an angled striped seed capsule up to 5cm 2 inches in length. Blooming 2nd week March, traditionally blooming more towards Easter, or April. Calochortus kennedyi can also be in brilliant cammium yellow..jpg)
These are found southwest lower deserts Arizona.
Marah gilensis
Cucumber squash, gourd, family (Cucurbitaceae) Gila man-root is called because it can totally engulf a man with extremely rapidly growing ringlet tendrils. Within hours a person maybe caught, This vining climbing trailing perennial growing from a large tuburous root with a round spiny pepo fruit. The fruits are intensely bitter with saponins and tannins like many desert cucurbits.
The leaves are glossy green palmately lobed and the vine climbs with green curling tendrils. Found in flower 1st and 2nd week March in riparaian canyon bottoms. These were trailing 2m 6ft high on spiny hackberry celtis trees.
The flowers are greenish yelllow, tiny miniature squash blossoms. The root was used for its saponin, think 'soapy' as in when chopped in water makes 'suds' and used for this quality..jpg)
The palmate leaves were boiled and when cooled were applied to hemorrhoids for their tannin astringency to tighten and shrink inflamed tissue in the peri area.
Platanus wrightii - Arizona sycamore
Synonyms: Platanus racemosa var. wrightii.
Other Names:àlamo, Arizona sycamore plane tree. Family: Platanaceae. A canyon watercourse large tree considered to be a 'knowing tree', also known as a wish fulfilling tree, think ' make a prayer wish to become a people', yet dosen't word-splain much intention, as evidenced by 2nd week March but still no leaves? I mean c'mon, like, 'What are you thinking? Dude?'.
A big hot mess of a tree, to 18m 59ft, with a much branched cat out the bag sprawling form, branches in all directions, with distinctive ghosted white bark, as a bass cloud tone with varying degrees of shready peeling, brownish shades on top. Growing here in watered canyon bottoms with other, feet in the water head in clouds, people like Ash, oaks, with cactus sagoos ascending hills. Budding, nete neti not yet leafed out. Leaves palmately in 3-7 pointed lobes,
light green above and hairy more grey below. Fruit is a fuzzy ball of seeds that disappears during winter winds then suddenly with no announcements becomes a seedling tiny tree. Here 2nd week of March, still no leaves, I mean really?
Water measuring cord moss.
Bonfire Moss Cinderella moss Funariah grometrica Funaria Mosses (Funariaceae), true to it's name our extensive continuous study so that we as us an our people may making these bryophytes our our greatest ally EarthFirst! Folkfirst!, after the 5 june 2020 Bighorn Fire seeing recovery on burned over sites on bare soil high in nitrogen.
This 2nd week March 2026 here finds Funaria hygrometrica as a densely tufted acrocarp with abundant immature emerald green sporophytes.
Water measuring cord moss can grow on almost any substrate as long as it is capped with a high nitrogen layer, here having been washed done a riparian slough.
mimulus monkeyflower Mimulus guttatus
- seep monkeyflower, guttata meaning spotted for the red spots on the yellow flower lobe.
Synonyms: Erythranthe
guttata Family: Scrophulariaceae now declassified Phrymaceae.. Mimulus monkeyflower in Arizona
is a plant of water, seeps and moist riparian environments. Here pictured in a well established perennial form with broad
https://youtu.be/IzQ3FxNgB2s?si=LGiesBkYsyx2V4NA
Purple Owl's Clover
Castilleja exserta
Broomrape/Paintbrush family (Orobanchaceae) formerly Orthocarpus purpurascens) 2700ft 900m Catalina foothills, south Arizona.
First week March, full moon eclipse, Moon 7-10 Virgo retrograde Mercury. Early winter rains have given way to early, dry, hot spring daytime highs low 90's, it's good to be here on the wildherbways flower road.
In our Cylindropuntia cholla forest,
we receive through the sitting with plants techno-process, by way of five senses, the archetypal form of God's creation direct transmission. Leaves become spines, spines become wounds, the individual segments without notice will leap, performing cartwheels and summer-saults. Many Cylindropuntia forest trees jump, up to 2-3 meters and you'll find these zipper snapper cholla lodged in your skin.
When approaching entrance to the great cylindropuntia forests always begin with honouring... the genius world teacher, of Wild Herb Ways to connect with the true form"
Janusia gracilis
Common Name: Slender Janusia
Spanish: Fermina)
Family: Malpighiaceae, Barbados cherry family. Perennial woody shrub, to 1m tall, with 5 petal yellow flowers, fruit is a samara often in pairs, leaves sessile opposite, visible midline greenish gray. Sonoran foothills, 1st week March, 900m 2700ft elevation.
Jatropha cardiophylla,
Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) Heart-leaf Limberbush, sangre-de-Cristo, w:as, sangrengado, blood root. Found south Arizona at 900m, 2700ft. The stem are supple, wiry, rubbery, flexible, bendable. Used to make coiled baskets. Bark is reddish brown with distinctive lenticels. First week March.
Limberbush is leafless till summer monsoon rains, when it puts out a distinctive heart shaped, creased glossy leaf, often at saguaro fruit time. A strong astringent, with a whitish creme clear translucent latex in upper parts, and red latex in the lowest stem and roots. Used to staunch bleeding, applied to insect bites, poison ivy skin type irritation,
when a drying 'calamine'-lotion type drying agent similar to how eastern jewel weed is used. Quite an interesting plant to hang out with and check out.
Platystemon californicus, Papaveraceae – Poppy family, Cream Cups.
Here in southern Arizona creamcups bloom first week March 2700ft, 900m, in moist, sandy ground at the edges of desert washes.
The leaves are tiny green, hugging the ground, hairy, opposite, linear to narrowly lanceolate in shape, and clustered at the base of the plant. The flowers are solitary creamy with 6 white petals, with a delicate poppy bowl, cupped shape.
The fruit resembles tiny miniature ears of corn. The stems and leaves are sparsely covered in unusual, long, white hairs. Further north, it grows taller and can be more of a meadow annual, while in the south sonoran desert it is always a stream sandy bank riparian, blooming while the moisture lasts.
Dodonaea viscosa,
hopbush, first week March, 900m, 2700ft,
sandy alluvial fan, riparian, southern Arizona. https://pgmanski.blogspot.com/.../Dodonaea%20viscosa...
Encelia farinosa, Family: Asteraceae
brittlebush,inciensio, an aster family woody shrub perennial, drought heavy hard frost-Deciduous. Around 1m, 3 ft, tall, rounded shape. Grey green leaves covered with fine hairs, early leaves are less hairy more green.
The leaves drop off during periods of drought and after heavy frosts.
A low desert Sonoran shrub that can bloom yellow golder aster flowers any time after december to March April. Here 1st week March 900m 2700ft, full sun rocky soil, with foothill thorn scrub, paloverde, cholla, burrobush, ambrosia dumosa.
At the junction of woody stems is found a yellow resin sap that can be gathered for a fragrant incense when burned, hence incienso.
Baccharis salicifolia,
mulefat, Seepwillow, Asteraceae nation, Batamote, Jara, Jarilla, Hierba del Pasmo, Jarillla. In the lower deserts, an alluvial fan, often riparian shrub.
This Baccharis has elongated gently toothed on edge leaves, the tooth is in a looped graceful undulating arch pattern.
Underside of leaf has prominent raised center vein, short stemmed mainly sessile grasping stem, dark green, glossy shiny, sticky to touch resinous. Used medicinally external for skin wound healing, wash for scratches. Internal as tea for gastric stomach upset.
Condea emoryi hyptis emoryi, Labiacea mint family, desert lavender.
Hyptis is a lower desert bush woody perennial mint, a frost-deciduous indicator going for micro niche environment, sun facing south slopes, boulders where solar heat is trapped. It is at it's frost sensitive limit here in the sonoran and mohave. Blooming first second week March, bees will buzz and hum, it's location out to all. Delight fragrances in the royal purplish blue mint flowers.
Hyptis is used to address the moon rock sickness that began in the late 60's where moon rocks spread the loathing sickness of selfish individualism spread through moon rocks and colour television. Hyptis was spoken of in visions by genius world teacher, peace pilgrim, Wild Herb Ways to bring back biospirit sexual energy healing, by broom sweeping, limpia, beginning with the head and shoulders, outer portion arm to fingers.
Arm pits inner aspect to fingers. Torso, buttocks, abdomen, outer legs to ankle toe, innner groin, inner leg sweeping to ankle feet into the ground.
World of Flowers, P
primal Forms the Genius Teacher teaching, Wild Herb Ways
https://youtu.be/ZsOVYe3mDjo?si=JvGNU5m3xMsPenbv
Sotol,
cucharilla, palmilla de serrucho, sawo, saño: Dasylirion wheeleri, Family: Asparagaceae, also described as an 'agave' century stylist plant.
Perennial rounded spherical plant, of rocky dry full sun southwest sonoran chihuahua deserets. Leaves are the graceful grey green bluish sea green, radiate from apex, fully serrated with spines on the margins. The marginal spines point towards the distal end of leaf, while agave parry and palmeri point toward apex. Sotol here first week March will send a towering flower stalk, 3-6m, 8-18ft tall, July August after monsoon rains.
There are male and female sotol with male flowers whitish and female feminine pink purple. Sotol like agave has an extensive root that was roasted in dug out roastiing pits and like agave, once roasted, fermented into the chihuahua drink sotol, long banned and
deplatformed, unavailable for green frog skin sale, now sold openly in commerce as 'sotol'.
Coursetia glandulosa,
Also Called:
Rosary Baby-Bonnets, Baby Bonnets, Coursetia (ES: Sámota, Samo Prieto, Chino, Cousamo, Cousano, (Tepe) Chipile), pea family, Fabaceae. First week March 2700ft 900m, in flower. Rocky dry full sun steep slopes, Catalina foothills, southern Arizona. A large sprawling perennial deciduous woody shrub, 6-12 feet high. Leaves are tiny, pinnately compound, and few and far between.
Many sonoran Fabaceae are armed, thorny, barbed, so lack of thorns is a key in Coursetia glandulosa. Branches are thin, flexible and rather flimsy.
The flowers are unique, white tinged pink with a yellow center, burgundy sepals. The stems exude a resinous gummy substance
that was added to pottery, adobe, and used to seal syrupy sweet saguaro nectar, and pottery jars storage containers.
Trixis californica -
American threefold, trixis, American trixis, California trixis
Family: Asteraceae. First week March, 900m 2700ft southern Arizona. Evergreen perennial shrub, round spherical form,
full sun rocky steep slopes. Dark green shiny lanceolate toothed leaves.
Yellow distinctive flower heads are surrounded with greenleaf like bracts.
Celtis ehrenbergiana, C. pallida,
Thorny Hackberry , Granjeno.
Found southern Arizona, requires shade and water to bear fruit.
These were growing in a well watered riparian creek side with afternoon shade,
2700ft 900m in ideal conditions otherwise you won't get fruit,
which is a fleshy drupe, one seeded, with a pleasant sweetness like persimmon.
saguaro
Moonrock colour television
Thysanocarpus curvipes
brassicids with single-seeded fruit capsule, with this presentation.
Sand Fringepod is a delicate plant, basal leaves in a rosette and cauline leaves are sessile clapping, wrapped around stem.
Nuttallanthus texanus,
=Linaria canadensis, Texas toadflax, Plantaginaceae, formerly Scrophulariaceae, the basal leaves yellow and disappear,
the toadflax then forms a raceme with lavender, purple flowers, to white creme, the flowers have a two lobed upper lip, three lobed lower lip,
with a long downward spur on the rear.
Growing in dry, sandy soil, mainly full sun, blooming extensive in the 2700ft 900m Catalinas, south Arizona.
Penstemon parryi,
Parry's beard-tongue, Parrys Penstemon. Scrophulariaceae – Figwort family.
Southern Arizona perennial blooming early March, southwest sonoran desert and now often seen throughout the Arizona, New Mexico and Utah seeded along highways and urban areas as landscape plantings.
fiddler fiddlesticks26 appalachian fiddle # spring 2026
Calochortus kennedyi,
The fruit will be an angled striped seed capsule up to 5cm 2 inches in length. Blooming 2nd week March, traditionally blooming more towards Easter, or April. Calochortus kennedyi can also be in brilliant cammium yellow.
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Marah gilensis
Cucumber squash, gourd, family (Cucurbitaceae) Gila man-root is called because it can totally engulf a man with extremely rapidly growing ringlet tendrils. Within hours a person maybe caught, This vining climbing trailing perennial growing from a large tuburous root with a round spiny pepo fruit. The fruits are intensely bitter with saponins and tannins like many desert cucurbits.
The leaves are glossy green palmately lobed and the vine climbs with green curling tendrils. Found in flower 1st and 2nd week March in riparaian canyon bottoms. These were trailing 2m 6ft high on spiny hackberry celtis trees.
The flowers are greenish yelllow, tiny miniature squash blossoms. The root was used for its saponin, think 'soapy' as in when chopped in water makes 'suds' and used for this quality.
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The palmate leaves were boiled and when cooled were applied to hemorrhoids for their tannin astringency to tighten and shrink inflamed tissue in the peri area.
Platanus wrightii - Arizona sycamore
Synonyms: Platanus racemosa var. wrightii.
Other Names:àlamo, Arizona sycamore plane tree. Family: Platanaceae. A canyon watercourse large tree considered to be a 'knowing tree', also known as a wish fulfilling tree, think ' make a prayer wish to become a people', yet dosen't word-splain much intention, as evidenced by 2nd week March but still no leaves? I mean c'mon, like, 'What are you thinking? Dude?'.
A big hot mess of a tree, to 18m 59ft, with a much branched cat out the bag sprawling form, branches in all directions, with distinctive ghosted white bark, as a bass cloud tone with varying degrees of shready peeling, brownish shades on top. Growing here in watered canyon bottoms with other, feet in the water head in clouds, people like Ash, oaks, with cactus sagoos ascending hills. Budding, nete neti not yet leafed out. Leaves palmately in 3-7 pointed lobes,
light green above and hairy more grey below. Fruit is a fuzzy ball of seeds that disappears during winter winds then suddenly with no announcements becomes a seedling tiny tree. Here 2nd week of March, still no leaves, I mean really?
Water measuring cord moss.
Bonfire Moss Cinderella moss Funariah grometrica Funaria Mosses (Funariaceae), true to it's name our extensive continuous study so that we as us an our people may making these bryophytes our our greatest ally EarthFirst! Folkfirst!, after the 5 june 2020 Bighorn Fire seeing recovery on burned over sites on bare soil high in nitrogen.
This 2nd week March 2026 here finds Funaria hygrometrica as a densely tufted acrocarp with abundant immature emerald green sporophytes.
Water measuring cord moss can grow on almost any substrate as long as it is capped with a high nitrogen layer, here having been washed done a riparian slough.
mimulus monkeyflower Mimulus guttatus
- seep monkeyflower, guttata meaning spotted for the red spots on the yellow flower lobe.
Synonyms: Erythranthe
guttata Family: Scrophulariaceae now declassified Phrymaceae.. Mimulus monkeyflower in Arizona
is a plant of water, seeps and moist riparian environments. Here pictured in a well established perennial form with broad
toothed glossy green opposite leaves with upper leaves smaller clasping the stem. Flowers are solitary deep yellow on a stem arising from leaf axis, with an erect two lobed upper petal and a three lobed petal with distinctive crimson red spots.
2nd week March blooming fruiting with seed capsules present, 900m 2700ft Catalinas. The plant has been used medicinally and southwest herbalist's such as Mimi Kemp, Donna Chester, Michael Shaw Moore,
Michael Cottingham, Kiva Rose, John Slattery, all of the above persons, in direct person exchanges,
describe its medicinal uses...
Fraxinus velutina
- velvet ash, Arizona Ash. Synonyms: Fraxinus pennsylvanica ssp. velutina, Fraxinus velutina var. coriacea,
Arizona ash, Fresno. Family: Oleaceae
A moderate substantial tree, 20-30 ft 3-10m tall-with grey furrowed bark, with a rounded symmetrical crown, leafing out and in in flower 1st to 2nd week March.
Here a watercourse, alluvial fan with underground water, usually a riparian, canyon tree at 1000m 3000ft. Leaves are glossy green,
pinnately compound with 3-7 in the grouping, elliptical to lanceolate shape, early leafing is velvety buttery smooth.
Salix gooddingii - Goodding willow,
Salix species are commonly referred to as Bīd in Persian Iranian TPM, western black # . Family: Salicaceae, poplar willow family.
In the riparian, alluvial flowz and seasonal canyons presents 2nd week of March in flower with golden Watkins, leafing out with leaves glossy green, 6-8 times longer than wide, finely toothed leaf margins visible with a 5-10x loupe, with a prominent center leaf vein. The tree from is sprawling tenacious to underground water sources, with grayish elongated furrowed bark. My organoleptic testing of this willow in the Romero drainage of Santa Catalina reveals a strong correlation to Salix species commonly referred to as Bīd in Persian, and used in our Western herbal schools of herbal medicine.
In TPM, Traditional Persian Medicine, Iranian-medicine plants are often classified by their temperament ( Mizaj ). Willow is generally considered to have a Cold and Moist temperament, making it suitable for treating "Hot" conditions like fevers and inflammatory pains. Hippocratic medicine is based
on the theory of four humors, the principle of which entered Persia with the religious thoughts of the Aryans, and the Iranian Persian physicians developed and elevated
it. The principle of this theory is based on the hypothesis of a small world (Kahjahan in Persian) and its similarity with a big world (Mahjahan ̄ in Persian). In this way of think-
ing, the human being represents a mirror of the whole view of the world. The theory of four natures is also based on the similarity of different human temperaments with the our elements of nature. The similarity between these two worlds is explained in the 13th part of Bondahesh. Apparently, the concept of four humors, Akhlat Arbaʿah in Arabic
and Persian, which is the basis of Hippocratic medicine, came from ancient Persia to Greece, and to us as herbalists today.
Aristolochia watsonii, raize del indio,
is, must, and will be for itself and for us in this divine sacred land sacred sex, a wild herb way vine perennial, growing from a yellow tap root, in the Aristolochiae family growing at 3000ft 950m in the lower desert to about 4500ft, 1400m, with triangular leaves deeply sagittate at point of attachment to its thin woody vine stem.
The leaf colour is purplish brown in a drought situation and can also be deep green depending on conditions.
According to the genius world teacher Wild Herb Ways, " ...in our peace pilgrim, do no harm, restore function of the divinely given # Orchid Manifesto, the plant is a ch'i vital force restorative, early prenatal ancestral lineage ch'i treatment.
Often utilized after prolonged debilitating illness. As is common today within a nefario power grab occupation, it is used in biospirit trauma to address 'failure to thrive' scenarios based on the occupation's erasure/enslavement, deplatforming, 'free speech, no reach' and other dystopian psyop control mechanisms in the escalation of was..."
Abutilon abutiloides or palmeri-
shrubby mallow, mallow family, perennial with last seasons seed pds,
grey green heart shaped leaves, hirsute, including petiole, fine hair covered, indented at attachment of petiole. Bushy woody shrub with, paloverde, hyptis emoryi, acacia, mesquite, saguaro and bisnaga. 3200ft 1000m near granite boulders full sun.
Catalina foothills.
Jojoba,
Simmondsia chinensis - jojoba
Family: Simmondsiaceae, in flower 1st week March rocky steep slopes, 2700ft, 900m southern Arizona, a perennial woody,
evergreen shrub with intricate branches that arch upwards,
male and female greenish yellow flowers are on male as female plant forms.
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis -
Tasajillo Synonyms: Opuntia leptocaulis
: Christmas Cactus, Family: Cactaceae. Called a ' Christmas cactus' because the red fruits on the glossly green segments, red and green, looks festive and cheery. Growing sheltered shady boulders canyon, 2700ft 900m southern Arizona.
Plant with glossy green segments, red fruits, and unlike many cholla, the continuing green segments often grow from the red fruits.
The Arizona pencil cholla has dull green fruits. It is easy to miss this cactus as it grows intertwined with other shrubs.
The flower of tasajillo is greenish yellow to green, and is 2.5cm wide, apx 1 inch wide, and blooms towards April- May and can also bloom in the fall.
Alfilerillo Erodium cicutarium - filaree: heron-bill, alfilaria, clocks, redstem stork's bill, Family: Geraniaceae is a geranium family medicinal herb
known like many in this family for its astringent tannins. Alfilerillo is well known as a folk medicine as urinary tract herb, a cup of alfilerillo tea, also drunk for pre-menstrual fluid retention. The herb is boiled then cooled and the broth and the leaves eaten by mothers to help increase milk production. Likewise the astringent quality of this geranium family member is useful for mild sun burn, skin abrasions and throat gargle.
The tender young leaves can be tried as a salad/pot herb early in the season. The herb is superabundant with low toxicity and high usefulness, thus an important herb to know. Gather the whole above ground herb and if the rootlets come up save those, wash, split in half the thicker ones and save above ground portions and rootlets, dry and save for medicinal teas mixed with manzanita leaf, pipsissewa, or uva-ursi for a uti tea blend.
Mixed with aralia, and raspberry leaf for a postpartum mothers tea blend.
Salvia columbariae - chia
: Turtle Island chia, desert sage,Family: Lamiaceae, or 'mint' family.
This sagey-mint family annual can winter over and get super knee high big or be a teeny invisible you smell and scent as you trudge the deseret doing the life's biospirit work of us becoming a people, or somewhere in between as here, about 30cm 12-14 inches tall double and triple decker bee hard wire pollen stations. Chia is definitely a blue flag for the ides of March and spring equinox. It's scent is a rub all over your body, the little sage mint blue balls a real treat and a blessing, to be above ground, on two legs.
Everyone is asking, "What about Aristotle and the primal forms?", " Genius World teacher incarnated to teach green orchid manifesto, sitting with plants, how do you connect # Jesus Christ is King, Aquinas and the Greek aristotle?" Well the answer is, easy peasey 'yes', the primal forms through sight, scent, taste, hearing, touch, priopreceptional space within the plant, person, and place is how we 'know'.
How we know is how we choose our actions in a fundamentally moral multiverse. We have to know before we can act morally for the wellbeing of us as a people.
https://youtu.be/X-1keB6YjPY?si=3Z6wYbreBuF8AoDW
2nd week March blooming fruiting with seed capsules present, 900m 2700ft Catalinas. The plant has been used medicinally and southwest herbalist's such as Mimi Kemp, Donna Chester, Michael Shaw Moore,
Michael Cottingham, Kiva Rose, John Slattery, all of the above persons, in direct person exchanges,
describe its medicinal uses...
Fraxinus velutina
- velvet ash, Arizona Ash. Synonyms: Fraxinus pennsylvanica ssp. velutina, Fraxinus velutina var. coriacea,
Arizona ash, Fresno. Family: Oleaceae
A moderate substantial tree, 20-30 ft 3-10m tall-with grey furrowed bark, with a rounded symmetrical crown, leafing out and in in flower 1st to 2nd week March.
Here a watercourse, alluvial fan with underground water, usually a riparian, canyon tree at 1000m 3000ft. Leaves are glossy green,
pinnately compound with 3-7 in the grouping, elliptical to lanceolate shape, early leafing is velvety buttery smooth.
Salix gooddingii - Goodding willow,
Salix species are commonly referred to as Bīd in Persian Iranian TPM, western black # . Family: Salicaceae, poplar willow family.
In the riparian, alluvial flowz and seasonal canyons presents 2nd week of March in flower with golden Watkins, leafing out with leaves glossy green, 6-8 times longer than wide, finely toothed leaf margins visible with a 5-10x loupe, with a prominent center leaf vein. The tree from is sprawling tenacious to underground water sources, with grayish elongated furrowed bark. My organoleptic testing of this willow in the Romero drainage of Santa Catalina reveals a strong correlation to Salix species commonly referred to as Bīd in Persian, and used in our Western herbal schools of herbal medicine.
In TPM, Traditional Persian Medicine, Iranian-medicine plants are often classified by their temperament ( Mizaj ). Willow is generally considered to have a Cold and Moist temperament, making it suitable for treating "Hot" conditions like fevers and inflammatory pains. Hippocratic medicine is based
on the theory of four humors, the principle of which entered Persia with the religious thoughts of the Aryans, and the Iranian Persian physicians developed and elevated
it. The principle of this theory is based on the hypothesis of a small world (Kahjahan in Persian) and its similarity with a big world (Mahjahan ̄ in Persian). In this way of think-
ing, the human being represents a mirror of the whole view of the world. The theory of four natures is also based on the similarity of different human temperaments with the our elements of nature. The similarity between these two worlds is explained in the 13th part of Bondahesh. Apparently, the concept of four humors, Akhlat Arbaʿah in Arabic
and Persian, which is the basis of Hippocratic medicine, came from ancient Persia to Greece, and to us as herbalists today.
Aristolochia watsonii, raize del indio,
is, must, and will be for itself and for us in this divine sacred land sacred sex, a wild herb way vine perennial, growing from a yellow tap root, in the Aristolochiae family growing at 3000ft 950m in the lower desert to about 4500ft, 1400m, with triangular leaves deeply sagittate at point of attachment to its thin woody vine stem.
The leaf colour is purplish brown in a drought situation and can also be deep green depending on conditions.
According to the genius world teacher Wild Herb Ways, " ...in our peace pilgrim, do no harm, restore function of the divinely given # Orchid Manifesto, the plant is a ch'i vital force restorative, early prenatal ancestral lineage ch'i treatment.
Often utilized after prolonged debilitating illness. As is common today within a nefario power grab occupation, it is used in biospirit trauma to address 'failure to thrive' scenarios based on the occupation's erasure/enslavement, deplatforming, 'free speech, no reach' and other dystopian psyop control mechanisms in the escalation of was..."
Abutilon abutiloides or palmeri-
shrubby mallow, mallow family, perennial with last seasons seed pds,
grey green heart shaped leaves, hirsute, including petiole, fine hair covered, indented at attachment of petiole. Bushy woody shrub with, paloverde, hyptis emoryi, acacia, mesquite, saguaro and bisnaga. 3200ft 1000m near granite boulders full sun.
Catalina foothills.
Jojoba,
Simmondsia chinensis - jojoba
Family: Simmondsiaceae, in flower 1st week March rocky steep slopes, 2700ft, 900m southern Arizona, a perennial woody,
evergreen shrub with intricate branches that arch upwards,
male and female greenish yellow flowers are on male as female plant forms.
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis -
Tasajillo Synonyms: Opuntia leptocaulis
: Christmas Cactus, Family: Cactaceae. Called a ' Christmas cactus' because the red fruits on the glossly green segments, red and green, looks festive and cheery. Growing sheltered shady boulders canyon, 2700ft 900m southern Arizona.
Plant with glossy green segments, red fruits, and unlike many cholla, the continuing green segments often grow from the red fruits.
The Arizona pencil cholla has dull green fruits. It is easy to miss this cactus as it grows intertwined with other shrubs.
The flower of tasajillo is greenish yellow to green, and is 2.5cm wide, apx 1 inch wide, and blooms towards April- May and can also bloom in the fall.
Alfilerillo Erodium cicutarium - filaree: heron-bill, alfilaria, clocks, redstem stork's bill, Family: Geraniaceae is a geranium family medicinal herb
known like many in this family for its astringent tannins. Alfilerillo is well known as a folk medicine as urinary tract herb, a cup of alfilerillo tea, also drunk for pre-menstrual fluid retention. The herb is boiled then cooled and the broth and the leaves eaten by mothers to help increase milk production. Likewise the astringent quality of this geranium family member is useful for mild sun burn, skin abrasions and throat gargle.
The tender young leaves can be tried as a salad/pot herb early in the season. The herb is superabundant with low toxicity and high usefulness, thus an important herb to know. Gather the whole above ground herb and if the rootlets come up save those, wash, split in half the thicker ones and save above ground portions and rootlets, dry and save for medicinal teas mixed with manzanita leaf, pipsissewa, or uva-ursi for a uti tea blend.
Mixed with aralia, and raspberry leaf for a postpartum mothers tea blend.
Salvia columbariae - chia
: Turtle Island chia, desert sage,Family: Lamiaceae, or 'mint' family.
This sagey-mint family annual can winter over and get super knee high big or be a teeny invisible you smell and scent as you trudge the deseret doing the life's biospirit work of us becoming a people, or somewhere in between as here, about 30cm 12-14 inches tall double and triple decker bee hard wire pollen stations. Chia is definitely a blue flag for the ides of March and spring equinox. It's scent is a rub all over your body, the little sage mint blue balls a real treat and a blessing, to be above ground, on two legs.
Everyone is asking, "What about Aristotle and the primal forms?", " Genius World teacher incarnated to teach green orchid manifesto, sitting with plants, how do you connect # Jesus Christ is King, Aquinas and the Greek aristotle?" Well the answer is, easy peasey 'yes', the primal forms through sight, scent, taste, hearing, touch, priopreceptional space within the plant, person, and place is how we 'know'.
How we know is how we choose our actions in a fundamentally moral multiverse. We have to know before we can act morally for the wellbeing of us as a people.
https://youtu.be/X-1keB6YjPY?si=3Z6wYbreBuF8AoDW
The subconscious mind can not distinguish between video fiction entertainment and what is. That's why smashing their television voice is the real work. 
It's either that or...so yes continue to sit together with plants. You are the hero we were waiting for...
" Big trees are walking, big trees are talking about flowers to come, sweet fruit and rain, kiss me in the moonlight till tomorrow comes..." genius world teacher Wild Herb Ways
Fouquieria splendens - ocotillo
Family: Fouquieriaceae. Ocotillo is a low desert perennial spiny woody shrub. The thorny spine covered cane like branches, are brown grey most of the year, sprouting green leaves after rains, then the leaves wither and yellow shortly after.
https://youtu.be/A82PK5ZKqe8?si=LI6F1to2-_lYFLvK
Atop the branches in spring, summer or autumn, depending on conditions, the ocotillo flowers form in clusters, at the tip of branches in long racemes. The flowers are crimson orange tubular and form usually in the spring after leaf out rains although they can also flower without leafing out. Ocotillo flowers attract ants, bees and hummingbirds. Ocotillo is a lower desert shrub on both sides of the Colorado river, in southern most Utah past the Rio Grande into New Mexico and Texas we'll into Mexico. Here in leaf out following recent rains with flower buds forming in the branch tips, still yet to open, 2nd week of March 900m 2700ft
Santa Catalina range in well drained sandy granite soil, full sun foothills and topping the Arroyo ridges of alluvial fans coming down from the peak
Estafiate Wormwood
Genius Teacher, Genius Teaching Wild Herb Ways
https://youtu.be/GGahN8JftB0?si=K8CATu-E6Kd9CGlT
It's either that or...so yes continue to sit together with plants. You are the hero we were waiting for...
" Big trees are walking, big trees are talking about flowers to come, sweet fruit and rain, kiss me in the moonlight till tomorrow comes..." genius world teacher Wild Herb Ways
Fouquieria splendens - ocotillo
Family: Fouquieriaceae. Ocotillo is a low desert perennial spiny woody shrub. The thorny spine covered cane like branches, are brown grey most of the year, sprouting green leaves after rains, then the leaves wither and yellow shortly after.
https://youtu.be/A82PK5ZKqe8?si=LI6F1to2-_lYFLvK
Atop the branches in spring, summer or autumn, depending on conditions, the ocotillo flowers form in clusters, at the tip of branches in long racemes. The flowers are crimson orange tubular and form usually in the spring after leaf out rains although they can also flower without leafing out. Ocotillo flowers attract ants, bees and hummingbirds. Ocotillo is a lower desert shrub on both sides of the Colorado river, in southern most Utah past the Rio Grande into New Mexico and Texas we'll into Mexico. Here in leaf out following recent rains with flower buds forming in the branch tips, still yet to open, 2nd week of March 900m 2700ft
Santa Catalina range in well drained sandy granite soil, full sun foothills and topping the Arroyo ridges of alluvial fans coming down from the peak
Estafiate Wormwood
Genius Teacher, Genius Teaching Wild Herb Ways
https://youtu.be/GGahN8JftB0?si=K8CATu-E6Kd9CGlT
Claytonia miners lettuce 2nd week March 2026 Vitamin G, 
the mystic, magic green vitamin Claytonia perfoliata var. amplectens family:Portulacaceae also listed as Montiaceae. Claytonia perfoliata is known by the common name: La hierba de la Tortuga or Turtle Island lettuce. https://youtu.be/W9_d9N_fk0E?si=Ik6ivb442_YPGU5h
the mystic, magic green vitamin Claytonia perfoliata var. amplectens family:Portulacaceae also listed as Montiaceae. Claytonia perfoliata is known by the common name: La hierba de la Tortuga or Turtle Island lettuce. https://youtu.be/W9_d9N_fk0E?si=Ik6ivb442_YPGU5h
Named because it is a favorite of the desert Tortoise Gopherus morafkai . The female desert Tortoise may semi-hibernate from November, towards February when she emerges at the dia de la Candelaria known as imbolc before laying her eggs. Upon awakening she goes through a purification, makes prayers to the Virgin Mary 
and begins eating hierba de la Tortuga when she wakes from sueño. She seeks our Salvia columbariae, specifically the roots which are known to 'wake the dead', and our single most important southwest bioregional herbal medicine used to restore cognitive function, and cerebral perfusion after a stroke. La Tortuga then makes an ancestral pilgrimage to mineral rich deposits that help create her eggs. La Tortuga does a dance at the mineral licks. She travels in packs of tortoises accompanied by her juvenile tortugist offspring.
A Santa Catalina Tortoise does not develop a hard shell until age six or seven.
The female La Tortuga selectively eats plants that help with water retention, such as desert chia, flowering tops, Salvia columbariae, yellow primrose flowers, and purple alfilaria, along with legumes, 4 petaled mustard flowers and spurges, and Aristolochia, raize del indio.
Cochemiea grahamii, Mammillaria grahamii - Graham's nipple fishhook cactus
Synonyms: Mammillaria microcarpa, Mammillaria milleri, Mammillaria oliviae
Other Names: Arizona fishhook cactus, pincushion cactus
Family: Cactaceae: Fishhook cactus here in the Catalina foothills zone is in clumps rather than as i've seen it in the Colorado mohave desert.
It is here 2nd week of March with its bright red shiny fruits from last years pink flowers. The fruit begins as green then over the winter turns this carmine scarlet red with a milk jug shape. The cactus is about 6 inches tall 15cm, and intensely spiny from each areol with apx 30 whitish tan radial spines, 2-3 central spines, with a much longer,
1-3 giant protruding blackish curved fishhook spines, so lots and lots of spines, so estimating 20,000 to 30,000 spines.
Gossypium thurberi https://pgmanski.blogspot.com/2022/09/desert-cotton-gossypium-thurberi.html?m=1
and begins eating hierba de la Tortuga when she wakes from sueño. She seeks our Salvia columbariae, specifically the roots which are known to 'wake the dead', and our single most important southwest bioregional herbal medicine used to restore cognitive function, and cerebral perfusion after a stroke. La Tortuga then makes an ancestral pilgrimage to mineral rich deposits that help create her eggs. La Tortuga does a dance at the mineral licks. She travels in packs of tortoises accompanied by her juvenile tortugist offspring.
A Santa Catalina Tortoise does not develop a hard shell until age six or seven.
The female La Tortuga selectively eats plants that help with water retention, such as desert chia, flowering tops, Salvia columbariae, yellow primrose flowers, and purple alfilaria, along with legumes, 4 petaled mustard flowers and spurges, and Aristolochia, raize del indio.
Cochemiea grahamii, Mammillaria grahamii - Graham's nipple fishhook cactus
Synonyms: Mammillaria microcarpa, Mammillaria milleri, Mammillaria oliviae
Other Names: Arizona fishhook cactus, pincushion cactus
Family: Cactaceae: Fishhook cactus here in the Catalina foothills zone is in clumps rather than as i've seen it in the Colorado mohave desert.
It is here 2nd week of March with its bright red shiny fruits from last years pink flowers. The fruit begins as green then over the winter turns this carmine scarlet red with a milk jug shape. The cactus is about 6 inches tall 15cm, and intensely spiny from each areol with apx 30 whitish tan radial spines, 2-3 central spines, with a much longer,
1-3 giant protruding blackish curved fishhook spines, so lots and lots of spines, so estimating 20,000 to 30,000 spines.
Gossypium thurberi https://pgmanski.blogspot.com/2022/09/desert-cotton-gossypium-thurberi.html?m=1
hanging with this oxytocin synergist
https://youtu.be/oQ7RCQTOcJI?si=cEDWHWZYScVXGAYa
midwifery herb and she's just cool to keep her blood red sap in the ground, she is going to wait and chill out and when she's ready she'll green out. hanging with her Big V energy oxytocin synergist #midwifery herb and she's just cool to keep her blood red sap in the ground, she is going to wait and chill out and when she's ready she'll green out.
https://youtu.be/6sP8enDRLFk?si=rEFaoaEGprFX3r37
https://youtu.be/oQ7RCQTOcJI?si=cEDWHWZYScVXGAYa
midwifery herb and she's just cool to keep her blood red sap in the ground, she is going to wait and chill out and when she's ready she'll green out. hanging with her Big V energy oxytocin synergist #midwifery herb and she's just cool to keep her blood red sap in the ground, she is going to wait and chill out and when she's ready she'll green out.
https://youtu.be/6sP8enDRLFk?si=rEFaoaEGprFX3r37
Obviously using that V, that huge squirt, soft and velvety smooth V becoming fisher's of men for this Peace Pilgrim movement, thank you for F-ing me. 
She's really my baby mama love me long time, great to sit with you Mrs Cotton root. Thanks for keeping it real baby girl.
Mallow family (Malvaceae) https://youtu.be/6sP8enDRLFk?si=Miu9PiA1m6UdOsHK
She's really my baby mama love me long time, great to sit with you Mrs Cotton root. Thanks for keeping it real baby girl.
Mallow family (Malvaceae) https://youtu.be/6sP8enDRLFk?si=Miu9PiA1m6UdOsHK
Cirsium neomexicanum - New Mexico thistle.
Family: Asteraceae 2nd week March in flower 900m 2700ft Santa Catalina foothills. The spiny nature of this plant and how the large two inch pink flower head attaches directly to the main stem, with spines downward pointing are a couple identifiers along with the hairy, spiny pointed, silver white prominent center vein basal leaves, another. New Mexico thistle blooms at this elevation early spring while at higher elevations it will bloom more like a later spring mid summer bloom. Everything is kinda super advanced down here seasonally.
Cirsium neomexicanum is a liver restorative and an important herbal ally for metabolic syndrome. The whole plant is used, roots, basal fleshy spiny leaves and flowering tops for the thistle seeds. This is probably one of the top 3 medicinal plants in what I call our Turtle Island southwest, or American southwest. Or as the genius world teacher, Wild Herb Ways is fond of saying, "The bottom line is regardless of your favorite poison, liver is king." According to him, 'Spring time is emergence of wood principle. Plants and the green veriditas of Saint Hildegarde is rising up, pushing through below ground into above ground.
Our own liver within biospirit requires the same rejuvenation to keep up, no pain no gain. If you're not being born, then what are you doing? Get with it! Either get with life, or get out. When the liver becomes stagnant , thinking and emotions become negated and frustrated. Spring is also the time of wind, atmospheric movement. When liver stagnancy meets 'wind' disturbance this becomes a stagnation of wind, or as lung sensitivity, what people may call seasonal allergies, head stuffiness, sinus headache. Look at it this way, there is a competition, are you in shape to compete? Or are you on the sideline? Or you participant ready for the game, or watching? Maybe not even watching in the stands, but watching on TV? Thistle is an herbal medicine to pull out of this liver stagnation funk. Just like there is seasonal affective SAD disorder in winter, there is seasonal affective disorder in the transition from winter to spring. Cirsium neomexicanum is the remedio
Ephedra trifurca
ephedra shrubs Family (Ephedraceae), a low desert shrub perennial with woody stems with grey fissured bark towards the base. The stems are greenish grey, at the nodes are miniaturized pine cone like structures with pollen grains
present here 3rd week March. Ephedra here is a 1-1.5m 3-4ft tall shrub growing on gravel soil with cholla, palo verde and ocotillo. You can do a organoliptic taste test, and determine by taste if this might be a good one to gather for tea or tincture,
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different plants have a strong alkaloid bitterness and might be suitable for a mildly stimulant tea, that can be part of a hayfever remedio.
The tea itself is pleasant tasting while the tincture can be quite bitter though useful as a type of decongestant with canyon burrbrush in bioregional formula.
Ambrosia ambrosioides Canyon burrsage,
Asteraceae. Big leaf burrsage is in the 2nd week March gurgling canyon bottoms of Santa Catalina the greenest of the green. This ambrosia species has the largest leaves with deep serrate toothed wedge shaped triangle leaves, and can stand 1-2m tall, 4-5 feet tall. Triangle leaf burrsage whole plant, and root teas and tincture, is one our most important remedio for itchy weepy eyes, runny nosezone hay fever, seasonal allergy syndrome SAS.
As we approach our nowruz Sun with the victory of light at vernal equinox all the pollens of cedar, juniper, ash, elm are pollening. Pollen time is a wildly sexual time, in Christian terms it's fishing season. In TCM traditional Chinese medicine, its spring, wood and wind time. In terms of our rambling random herbalism of the genius world teacher Wild Herb Ways, sacred land sacred sex, Nō-Rūz means new day, means rejuvenation of liver to match as above so below, big body world, small little body world.
The element is wod, the colour is deep green triangle leaf big burr green, the climate is windy blowing, the emotion is anger energy to get things done, and the organs are live gallbladder. All this wind stirring up the plant, wood sex pollen enters our nose and enters our wind blow organ lungs making what is called by genius teacher, 'liver attacking lung'. So we make up this formula using New Mexico thistle, big leaf burrsage,
plantain and elder flower. May you be blessed by me.
Oenotheraprimiveris -
desert evening primrose. Family: Onagraceae Is a ground hugging primrose , with deeply lobed elongated basal leaves,
10cm long, with white hairs. The flower is yellow with 4 fused heart shaped petals, flowers open at dusk, stay open all night
and close in the morning as the sun rises higher. Growing 3rd week March 2700ft, 900m, on graveled, well drained soil.
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